After the full field of 68 was revealed for the NCAA Tournament on Sunday, Wendell Green Jr. took to Twitter with a challenge for Auburn’s fans: “Let’s turn LegacyArena into the Jungle.”
So, after the full field of 68 was revealed, Green took to Twitter with a challenge for Auburn’s fans: “Let’s turn Legacy Arena into the Jungle.” In a season full of close calls that more often than not did not fall Auburn’s way, the Tigers finally had the pendulum swing back in their favor on Selection Sunday, with a chance to play their NCAA Tournament opener just 112 miles from their homecourt.
Birmingham was the most favorable sub-regional site Auburn could have hoped for out of the eight options available in this year’s tournament. That the Tigers landed their despite an uneven season that saw them drop nine of their final 13 games — six of them by five points or fewer — is quite the consolation for Pearl and his team as it heads into its fourth March Madness appearance in the last five postseasons.
“Just another home game,” senior wing Allen Flanigan said Monday. “Our fans here, they travel with us. Being in Birmingham, two and a half hours away from home, I’m sure it’ll feel just like a home game for us.” Between the program’s preseason exhibition tour of Israel, its trip to Mexico for the Cancun Challenge, a two-game West Coast swing and even a trip to West Virginia for the Big 12/SEC Challenge, Pearl was quick to mention Sunday and again Monday that his team has racked up 31,000 miles of travel this. For comparison, the Tigers logged just 11,000 miles of travel a year ago, when they rose to No. 1 in the AP poll for the first time in school history and earned a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
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